This week it’s a Stew episode so you never know what you will find. First we discuss Home Improvement and share some tips that we have learned (most the hard way). Then we discuss our process for making big decisions in our life. We have a doozy of a decision coming up so we have been going through this process all week.

Home Improvement
– Having the right tool
– Prep is key
– Don’t rush
– Sweat the small stuff

You guys are killing me. This is the first podcast that I feel is an exactly repeat of my Sunday here on the opposite coast from you.

Our house was staged really, ever so cleverly. Now all the failed dry wall tape, leaky pipes in the roof, shoddy prepped painted surfaces are driving me batty after living here for 2 years. The work we did to ready our other house for market had us worn too (after a year of working on it), but now that orange faux painted wall, made to mimic terracotta, in our entry has given me the stink eye one too many times. We chose buckets and buckets of Ben Moore’s Milkyway, and now I am wondering if it would be a good trim color as well.

Point of this comment was not to commiserate, but to let you know…I hope next week’s podcast is about something I can listen to while committing a blessful act of escaping reality. Having you guys distract me with your weekly firesides is truly the only way I can sanely exist in a house with orange, beige, and yellow walls, white trim, and bluish purple cabinets. :)

Catching up on missed podcasts….thanks for sharing all you tips and thoughts on home improvement projects. Painting the interior of our home is on our to do list. I will keep in mind your “must do” points.

Also….will be waiting to hear what your big and exciting news is all about!

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This is a daily journal of my efforts to cultivate a more simple life, through local eating, gardening and so many other things. We used to live in a small suburban neighborhood Ohio but moved to 153 acres in Liberty, Maine in 2012.